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5Rational Sentence Interpretation in Mandarin ChineseCognitive Science 47 (12). 2023.Previous work has shown that English native speakers interpret sentences as predicted by a noisy‐channel model: They integrate both the real‐world plausibility of the meaning—the prior—and the likelihood that the intended sentence may be corrupted into the perceived sentence. In this study, we test the noisy‐channel model in Mandarin Chinese, a language taxonomically different from English. We present native Mandarin speakers sentences in a written modality (Experiment 1) and an auditory modalit…Read more
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7The Puzzle of Argument Structure Mismatch in GappingFrontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.Voice mismatch between conjuncts is impossible in the gapping construction. Some recent studies explained this effect by analyzing gapping as involving the ellipsis of a category at least as large as VoiceP. One prediction this analysis makes is that mismatch of any head structurally lower than Voice should not be possible in gapping. In this study, through a series of acceptability judgment experiments examining argument structure mismatches in gapping, we provide empirical observations that ch…Read more
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Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |